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Puccini's Gianni Schicchi (Complete)

Topics: Opera, Puccini, FNAO

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FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE

Once or Twice a Fortnight (9 February 2017)

Project 366 Listener Guide #87-89

“Puccini: Il Trittico”

Giacomo PUCCINI (1858-1924)

Il trittico (The Triptych, 1918) - A collection of three one-act operas

ACT 3 – Gianni Schicchi (L/G #89)

Gianni Schicchi is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on a story that is referred to in Dante's The Divine Comedy. It is the third of the trio of operas known as Il trittico. Its first performance was at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918. The opera is best known for the soprano aria, "O mio babbino caro" (Oh, my dear papa).

[Betto Di Signa] – Giovanni Foiani

[Gherardino] – Antonino Di Ninno

[Gherardo] – Renato Ercolani

[Gianni Schicchi] – Fernando Corena

[Guccio] – Mario Frosini

[La Ciesca] – Miti Truccato Pace

[Lauretta] – Renata Tebaldi

[Maestro Spinelloccio; Ser Amantio Di Nicolaio] – Giuseppe Morresi

[Marco] – Silvio Maionica

[Nella] – Dora Carral

[Pinellino] – Angelo Mercuriali

[Rinuccio] – Agostino Lazzari

[Simone] – Paolo Washington

[Zita] – Lucia Danieli

Conductor – Lamberto Gardelli

Ensemble – Chorus And Orchestra Of The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Adapted from Friday Night at the Opera Podcast dated 10 July 2009. Original podcast @ http://archive.org/details/FridayOpera_090710